How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current web space hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which provides an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire web page hosting market furnish literally the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web page hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different site hosting brands all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the contemporary web site hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly satisfied all web hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number 1: A moronic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain)

Are you growing nonplussed? We definitely are!

Disadvantage No.2: The very same email folder setup

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Disadvantage Number 3: An entire lack of domain name manipulation tools

Do we need to bring up the thorough lack of a modern domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" section at all. That's a colossal downside. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Negative Side No.4: Multiple user login locations (min two, max 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web space hosting company. At times, depending on the billing system (especially meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the devoted customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than 120 hosting Control Panel menus to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting companies:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...